Barbara Kay
Award-winning columnist, @nationalpost & @fullcomment. Author of A Three-Day Event - available at Amazon.ca. Radio & TV pundit. Proud mother and grandmother.
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It Wasn’t My Cancelation That Bothered Me. It Was the Cowardice of Those Who Let It Happen - Quillette
It doesn’t take much to get cancelled these days. Last month, my turn came around. The experience was unpleasant, but also completely ludicrous. And I learned a lot. I learned how easily an institution will cave to a mob. I learned how quickly the...
I Cited Their Study, So They Disavowed It
If scientists retract research that challenges reigning orthodoxies, politics will drive scholarship.
Barbara Kay
The death rattle of objective scholarship: A study of fatal police shootings reached conclusions at odds with the political consensus. Now the authors are retracting their research simply because I cited it, writes @HMDatMI wsj.com/articles/i-cit… via @WSJ
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Happy Birthday J K Rowling - Transgender Trend
CLICK HERE to download the J K Rowling letter * Refresh the page to see your download added! Did you know that JK Rowling’s and Harry Potter’s birthdays are coming up soon? Many of us have felt heartened and grateful for JK Rowling’s recent...
Chris Selley: From the Aga Khan to WE, Trudeau still can't seem to grasp reality
Any normal human being could have told the Prime Minister it was a terrible idea. Do none work for him?
‘Hitler Was Right’: NFL Player Posts Anti-Semitic Quotes, Praises Farrakhan
The post by DeSean Jackson includes a passage falsely attributed to Adolf Hitler accusing Jews of a plot for 'world domination' and concludes with the quote 'Hitler was right.'
Barbara Kay
How exactly can people take this post “the wrong way?”:Hitler Was Right': NFL Player Posts Anti-Semitic Quotes, Praises Farrakhan | United with Israel
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Against Environmental Pessimism
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be hopeful about the future of the planet.
Barbara Kay
"it is almost certain there will be larger forests, more wildlife, cleaner rivers, and richer seas, because that is what is currently happening. Most people who deny this, and insist things are getting worse, are simply wrong"
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Israel at the vanguard of counter-terrorism
Dr. Boaz Ganor on training the next generation of counter-terrorism experts
The top five blunders white people make when talking to their brown doctor
'Where did you do your training?' Why? Would you ask a white doctor that?, writes Dr. Mandy Ruthnum
TREV - Medical Transition Is No Place For A Child organized by Scott Newgent
Trans Rational Educational Voices - TREVMission - To serve as a resour… Scott Newgent needs your support for TREV - Medical Transition Is No Place For A Child
Barbara Kay
I donated. I hope Scott achieves his goal to prevent further damage to vulnerable kids. TREV - Medical Transition Is No Place For A Child
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CPC Leadership Candidate Derek Sloan Supports Call for Inquiry into “Sex Reassignment” of Vulnerable Youths.
Today Conservative Party of Canada leadership call for a National Inquiry into the mass medical gender transitioning/”sex reassignment” of vulnerable and at risk children and adolescent…
Barbara Kay
CPC Leadership Candidate Derek Sloan Supports Call for Inquiry into "Sex Reassignment" of Vulnerable Youths.
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BLM Toronto leader believes white people are sub-human, calls them 'genetic defects'
A social media post has resurfaced from a Black Lives Matter Toronto co-founder in which she argues that white people are “sub-human” and are “recessive genetic defects.”
Anti-Freedom Extremists Spray Paint 'Communism Will Win' At Site Of Canadian Memorial To The Victims Of Communism
Something very disturbing and dangerous is going on in this country. The defacing and desecration of monuments, flags, and symbols continues in Canada. And now, even un-completed memorials are being vandalized. At the construction site of the...
Barbara Kay
I can’t even. Anti-Freedom Extremists Spray Paint 'Communism Will Win' At Site Of Canadian Memorial To The Victims Of Communism
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Jeffrey Epstein's Money Tainted My Workplace. Then Ronan Farrow's Botched Reporting Trashed My Reputation - Quillette
“You really need to pull over. You can’t drive all the way to Illinois without some rest,” my spouse implored, as he tried to speak sense to me on the phone while looking online for hotels in Eastern Pennsylvania. I could stop in Bethlehem, he said...
Barbara Kay
@RonanFarrow once again proves to be a poor journalist. He has a million followers: "But even so, one would expect that, no matter how famous a reporter may be, a publication such as the New Yorker would correct clear mistakes" - Quillette quillette.com/2020/07/06/jef… via @Quillette
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Children's author sacked for supporting JK Rowling in transgender row
Gillian Phillip, a bestselling children's author, has been sacked after expressing support for fellow writer and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling in the bitter online row over transgender rights.
PODCAST 98: Physicist Lawrence Krauss on Why Identity Politics Should be Kept Out of Science - Quillette
Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many...
Could Trans Women Get Uterus Transplants in the Near Future?
A cis woman gave birth after having a uterine transplant, which has implications for other women born without uteruses.
Send an email to Liz Truss • Fair Play For Women
The government’s response to the 2018 public consultation on GRA reform is going to be published this month! Thirty thousand of us raised our concerns during the consultation and the government has listened. Last month the Sunday Times revealed in a...
A Black programmer at Twitter is working to ensure he never again sees the phrase "automatic slave rekick"
Exclusive: The site's move toward inclusive language formally began in January, months before the current Black Lives Matter protests.